Waiting

Ever thought how much time we spend waiting? There are those statistics that tell us we spend half our lives asleep, or 15 years eating, etc. but they don't estimate how much time is spent waiting.   
    Waiting for Godot or waiting for Google. Waiting for snow, or fine weather, or summer or Christmas. Or holidays, or home time. Waiting for buses and planes and taxis.
   Waiting to be born, waiting to die. Waiting for beginnings, waiting for endings. Waiting for the movie to start, waiting for it to finish. Waiting for someone to arrive, waiting for someone to leave, waiting for someone to notice us. We wait for inspiration, for revelation, for the Second Coming, for others to realise the truths that seem so self-evident to us. We wait collectively in queues and in worried hushed groups or as jubilant crowds waiting for the victors to march past. As individuals we wait at home alone or in the secret places of our own minds.
  And we wait to recover the profound thought that we had just before the cat walked across the keypad.